In their perpetual push to upgrade the point-guard position, the Knicks have thrown their hat in the ring for Rod Strickland again, according to sources.

Strickland, the Blazers’ free agent, said in March he wouldn’t consider playing for the Knicks once Mark Jackson came aboard because he didn’t want to revisit the past. When Strickland’s contract was bought out in March by the Wizards, GM Scott Layden contacted Strickland’s former agent, David Falk, but was told his client was no longer interested. That is not the case now.

Problem is, the Knicks used their $4.5 million cap exception on Clarence Weatherspoon and would have to execute a sign-and-trade with the Blazers to get Strickland, whose representatives have already rebuffed the Knicks’ offer of the $1.3 million exception.